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Advancing the World’s Technology Together

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Please Note

To provide the best candidate experience amidst our high application volumes, each candidate is limited to 10 applications across all open jobs within a 6-month period.

Advancing the World’s Technology Together

The Technology Enabling Development Lab (TED) Our core development focus is the host interface firmware layer that sits in the intersection of system software and flash management firmware. This key host interface firmware technology drives Samsung’s breakthrough V-NAND technology and enables our customers to power performance-oriented, demanding, enterprise-class applications ranging from hyper-scale data centers, to big data processing, to software defined virtualized storage arrays and infrastructures.

Location: Daily onsite presence at our San Jose, CA office / U.S. headquarters in alignment with our Flexible Work policy.

What You’ll Do

Validation strategy: Lead end-to-end functional validation for NVMe SSDs. Define black-box test methodologies, validation plans, coverage metrics, and release-readiness criteria for current and next-generation products, covering quality, reliability, interoperability, and standards compliance.
Protocol compliance: Ensure adherence to NVM Express and PCI-SIG specifications across NVMe, PCIe, NVMe-MI, and sideband management interfaces.
NVMe-MI and sideband testing: Define and implement coverage for out-of-band management, management commands, discovery and enumeration, health monitoring, telemetry, and error handling, scoped to product requirements.
PCIe validation: Lead testing of link training and initialization, link-state transitions, reset and recovery, power management, error injection and handling, and interoperability across supported configurations.
Failure analysis and debug: Work with firmware, hardware, silicon, platform, and system validation teams to reproduce failures, design experiments, find root causes, and drive corrective actions to closure.
Field feedback loop: Analyze customer-reported issues, field failures, and OEM escalations to find systemic coverage gaps. Turn them into regression tests, better methodologies, and preventive quality measures.
Technical leadership: Guide automation and validation teams in developing, integrating, and maintaining scalable automated test suites within existing frameworks.

What You Bring

BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field with 15+ years of relevant experience, or an MS with 13+ years OR PhD with 10+ Years.
Extensive hands-on experience in NVMe SSD functional validation, protocol testing, system-level qualification, and device debugging.
Strong knowledge of NVMe, PCIe, NVMe-MI, and sideband interfaces, and the ability to turn specifications into comprehensive test plans.